C.S. Lewis

Date of Birth:: 29 November 1898
Date of Death:: 22 November 1963
Nationality:: British
Quote count:: 3593
Times favorited:: 787

Clive Staples "Jack" Lewis , commonly referred to as C.

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“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

C.S. Lewis

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Advice

Use

Words

“There is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan”

C.S. Lewis

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Christianity

Claim

Claimed

Counter

God

Ground

Inch

Neutral

Neutrality

No

Satan

Second

Split

Square

Universe

“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

C.S. Lewis

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Christian

Christians

Eternal Perspective

Heaven

History

Life After

Other Worldly Minded

Precisely

Present

Read

The Present

Think

World

“We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with”

C.S. Lewis

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Cooperation

Creatures

Fallen

Forgiveness

Hard

Hurt

Intolerance

Live

Sinful

“God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.”

C.S. Lewis

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God

Pain

Pleasure

Pleasures

Shouts

Whisper

Whispers

“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Lewis Carroll

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Believe

Believed

Breakfast

Impossible

Six

“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.”

C.S. Lewis

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Afraid

Believe

Dispense

Enough

Give More

Giving

Not

One

Ought

Rule

Safe

Settle

Spare

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”

C.S. Lewis

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Art

Imagination

Meaning

Order

Reason

Truth

“This moment contains all moments.”

C.S. Lewis

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Contains

Moment

Moments

Present

“Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.”

C.S. Lewis

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Christianity

False

Importance

Importance. Moderately

Infinite

Lukewarm

No

True

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